“IT DOESN'T gloss over you. It burrows in deep.” Tenor Nicholas Mulroy is talking about Monteverdi’s madrigals – music he’ll be directing (and singing) with the Dunedin Consort in Aberdeen, Lerwick ...

Claudio Monteverdi, the innovative master of the early Italian Baroque, knew more about the conflict of love and war — make that love as war — than most of today’s rock balladeers. The themes combine ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Produced in 1607 at the ducal palace in Mantua, Monteverdi's Orfeo is considered ...

Which comes first in song, the words or the music? It’s an ancient dispute, which rose to fever pitch in the Italian Baroque. Rinaldo Alessandrini, the Italian conductor and musical director of this ...

This is Jane Glover’s Monteverdi winter in Chicago. During the last two months, she has conducted a triumphant production of the great Baroque composer’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” at Chicago Opera ...

Matthew Dirst is the Founder and Artistic Director of Ars Lyrica Houston. He stops into the KUHF Studios to discuss his ensemble’s concert of music by 17th Century Italian Composer Claudio Monteverdi.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Italians came late to period performance style, but they have certainly made up for lost time. Rinaldo ...

On 21 March REMA-EEMN, the European Early Music Network, celebrates the European Day of Early Music. The Monteverdi Project in Malta will join these celebrations and offers a programme of vocal ...